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The volume of the spherocylinder is given by | The molecular volume of the spherocylinder is given by | ||
:<math>\frac{ | :<math>v_0 = \pi \left( \frac{LD^2}{4} + \frac{D^3}{6} \right)</math> | ||
where <math>L</math> is the length of the spherocylinder and <math> | where <math>L</math> is the length of the cylindrical part of the spherocylinder and <math>D</math> is the diameter. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2207141 Giorgio Cinacchi and Yuri Martínez-Ratón and Luis Mederos and Enrique Velasco "Smectic, nematic, and isotropic phases in binary mixtures of thin and thick hard spherocylinders", Journal of Chemical Physics '''124''' pp. 234904 (2006)] | #[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2207141 Giorgio Cinacchi and Yuri Martínez-Ratón and Luis Mederos and Enrique Velasco "Smectic, nematic, and isotropic phases in binary mixtures of thin and thick hard spherocylinders", Journal of Chemical Physics '''124''' pp. 234904 (2006)] | ||
Revision as of 13:37, 22 March 2007
The molecular volume of the spherocylinder is given by
where is the length of the cylindrical part of the spherocylinder and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle D} is the diameter.
References
- Giorgio Cinacchi and Yuri Martínez-Ratón and Luis Mederos and Enrique Velasco "Smectic, nematic, and isotropic phases in binary mixtures of thin and thick hard spherocylinders", Journal of Chemical Physics 124 pp. 234904 (2006)
- P. Bolhuis and D. Frenkel "Tracing the phase boundaries of hard spherocylinders", Journal of Chemical Physics 106 pp. 666-687 (1997)
- S. C. McGrother and D. C. Williamson and G. Jackson "A re-examination of the phase diagram of hard spherocylinders", Journal of Chemical Physics 104 pp. 6755-6771 (1996)